Red Wings prospect Tomas Tatar wins first 'under-20 Golden Puck' award in Slovakia, will play for HKm Zvolen in 09-10

According to the Slovak News Agency, SITA, Slovak hockey celebrated its best and brightest with the "Zlatý puk," or "Golden puck," awards in Kostice. Red Wings prospect Tomas Tatar earned a "Golden puck" as the best Slovak player in the 20-and-under category.

As far as I can tell (and plugging the original article into a few translators and doing word-by-word translations doesn't clarify all that much in Slovak, which makes translating Swedish seem elementary, so, uh...help?), Zvolen signed him to a three-year-deal with an option to renew each season thereafter, and as there is an IIHF transfer agreement between the NHL and Slovakia, Zvolen won't stand in Tatar's way if he leaves to play for the Red Wings or Grand Rapids Griffins, but they'd prefer that he matures in Zvolen until the Wings decide to bring him over to North America.

Update 12:40 AM: HKm Zvolen's website states that Tatar was refused a transfer to the Kitchener Rangers (thus Kitchener trading his rights to Plymouth). He's been allowed to head over to Detroit's prospect tournament on September 4th, but Zvolen wants him to stay with the Wings for their main camp only if they "express strong interest" in keeping him there. Again, he's allowed to leave for the Red Wings or the Grand Rapids Griffins, but they're iffy about the concept of the Wings sending him to Toledo, and Zvolen's website does confirm that he's signed a 3-year deal with an annual one-year extension option..